Russian propaganda has made him the bogeyman of Ukrainian nationalism.
Exhausted, starving, wounded, there are only a few dozen men and hundreds of civilians entrenched in the metallurgical complex of Azovstal, in Mariupol, to offer a last fierce resistance to the Russian invader. Their chances of survival are slim. But perhaps some console themselves by finding their homeland there. It was in Mariupol, on the shores of the Sea of Azov, that the movement of the same name was created in May 2014.